[U-Boot] [PATCH] mxs: mxsboot: Add support for SD card generation for i.MX23

Otavio Salvador otavio at ossystems.com.br
Sat Jan 26 16:50:30 CET 2013


On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Otavio Salvador
>> <otavio at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
>> > I prefer to have this as is and share documentation with mx28. The
>> > NAND ought to be done providing same interface so one doc for it all.
>> > I think change it in next version is wrong and confuse users.
>>
>> Ping?
>>
>> We won't be able to get rid of mxsboot for NAND use-case so I'd prefer
>> to have it for SD as well. For me it does not matter much as I use OE
>> and it automates it all; but for ordinary user it is important to it
>> to be consistent so all 'mxs' SoC would work same way from user point
>> of view.
>>
>> If we find a better way of doing things in future we can base on this
>> and improve it later but please let's get it in and move forward...
>
> Does my proposed patch not work for you? (the one which shifts the bootstream
> payload to block 4 in partition 1)

I gave it a try today.

And it works for mx23evk; I did not test it in mx28.

So what is the plan? I did not check the NAND format yet to know if it
is the same between mx28 and mx23 but I do want the machines merged as
soon as possible so people can play with it and find bugs.


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Otavio Salvador                             O.S. Systems
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